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On August 12 2007 01:15 NeoIllusions wrote:
In a gist, watching reps on b.net adds to server stress.
In a gist, watching reps on b.net adds to server stress.
Can you elaborate, please? I find that hard to believe. I don't see why a replay should be any more "stressful" than any other private game.
Personally, being able to watch replays together with friends online makes them a lot more enjoyable. Even though you don't get as much information, SC's replay system is easily superior to WC3's replay system because of this. Besides, thanks to 3rd party programs like Penguin Plug (before it stopped working in 1.15), we could see stuff like what the players were clicking on, and we had replays where all the in-game text was saved. So I'd be surprised if these features were somehow incompatible with viewing replays online with other people.
Like Ken~D, I really have no idea why this feature had to be removed from WC3. I mean, they already had observers as a feature for games (which I assume SC2 will have as well
). So if multiple people were watching a replay, I imagine they could've been treated as observers (in contrast to SC1 which treats them as players, which is why we're limited to 2 replay-viewing slots for 2-player maps, e.g.). So I don't think it was a technical limitation in the game's programming.
